Re: [tied] p-IE vocalic system (it was: Reconstruction of Proto-Ind

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Davius Sanctex" <gruposdavius@...>
wrote:

> [Davius] At least Foley point that there is at least one language
> (Kallam) with "vocalic" /e, a, o; y, w/ with the phonemes /w, y/
> having alopones [i, u] respectively. This vocalic system of Kallam
> is close to some the p-IE reconstructions, the existence of Kallam
> system supports the tipological reliability of IE vocalic
> system: /e, a, o/.

IMO, Szemerenyi (probably badly misspelled) has argued persuasively
that there were original /i/ and /u/ that were unrelated to /j/
and /w/. Likewise I have to agree with him on laryngeals (he posits
only one), which means that the system doesn't reduce to just /e/
modified with laryngeals.